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Dialysis Patient Says Transport Vehicle is Moving Oven

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Dialysis Patient Says Transport Vehicle is Moving Oven: MyFoxHOUSTON.com

Shad Ireland does it Again!

admin — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:57:09 +0000

UCSF Leads Way for Implantable Nano Dialysis(kidney)

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:53:37 +0000

An artificial kidney could soon be a solution. Researchers at University of California-San Francisco hope to implant the device right in the body.

Thousands of microscopic filters mimic the filtering role of a real kidney. One side filters out toxins while the other re-absorbs salt and water and emits waste. The body’s own blood pressure performs the filtration without the need for a power supply.

“Because it’s implanted and provides many of the same benefits of a transplant, the patient quality of life, the patient health, will be improved,” said Frassetto.

The surgery will cost the same as a kidney transplant, but this device is designed to completely eliminate the $75,000 per year spent on dialysis for each patient. A room-sized model of the artificial kidney has been used for more than a decade. Now engineers are trying to fit that into a device the size of a coffee cup.

Transplant Turmoil

admin — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:53:51 +0000

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Like all states, Arizona is facing hard financial times, but this is a question of priorities. While Courtney’s life is on the line, Brewer eagerly signed tax cuts for businesses into law last week — cuts that will cost Arizona $538 million by 2018. Yet the governor has dragged her feet in offering the mere $1.36 million needed to save Courtney and her cohort’s lives, and she has consistently ignored 26 possible funding solutions from a member of her own party.

For Brewer, the fact that Courtney’s plight is forced to take a backseat to business tax cuts is “sad but necessary.”

The Kids Don’t Want Dialysis Patients Next Door

admin — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:59:55 +0000

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For Some Kidney Patients Home Dialysis Can Spell Freedom

admin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:42:55 +0000

For Some the Only Option is Dialysis, Are you one of Them?

admin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:27:25 +0000

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Winnsboro Dialysis Patients Frustrated Over Clinic A/C Problem

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:57:27 +0000

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At Home Help For Patients Undergoing Dialysis

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:21:32 +0000

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Thousands of people undergoing dialysis could benefit from doing their own dialysis in the comfort of their own homes. Daily home dialysis with a small, FDA-cleared machine is available for many people who have had kidney failure. People like retired police officer Jon Dial who was diagnosed with a genetic disorder called polycystic kidney disease.

In January 2008, Jon’s kidneys failed completely and he was forded to begin dialysis to sustain his life. Before he started dialysis he says he could hardly get off the recliner, he was tired and fatigued all the time.

Once on regular hemo-dialysis he started feeling much better but it took a lot of his time and energy to go to the dialysis center three time sa week and sit there for at least four hours at a time for the treatment. But then he found out you could do it inside his own home.

After a training program with nurses at DaVita UCLA at Home, Jon can now give himself dialysis when he wants it, not when the dialysis center can fit him in. He says it’s so much more convenient.

He no longer has to take the time to drive to UCLA, pay for parking, wait in the waiting room for his turn and then sit in the chair for four hours. Now he can do it home while watching his favorite television shows.

And since he gets dialysis more frequently, six time a week for about two hours at a time, he says the side effects like fatigue and nausea are less.

Jon says he feels better than ever, he’s even working out again. He’s grateful his doctor recommended the home machine. However there are so many people who don’t even know a home machine is available.

Michelle Bullock, a registered nurse with DaVita At Home Los Angeles says they hope to spread about the home hemo-dialysis machine. Because she says as soon as people hear about it they want to learn more and often chose it for themselves because it improves the quality of their lives.

The home dialysis machine is small enough that patients can even travel with it. And it is covered by most insurance. For more information go to www.nxstage.com

SOURCE: KTLA

Hemodialysis as a last hope for life in Russia

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:47:31 +0000

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There are growing calls across Russia’s healthcare system for the government to provide proper treatment for people suffering from kidney failure as patients across the country are often getting bad medical care or none.

Those who suffer kidney failure are unable to remove waste products and water from their blood without the special treatment, hemodialysis, and eventually they die.

Dialysis centers are in extremely short supply throughout Russia and many regions simply cannot afford the expensive lifesaving equipment, which means that an alarmingly high number of people die before ever receiving the vital treatment.

The problem was made worse after the Ministry of Healthcare issued an order in 2006 placing dialysis treatment under “specialized medical care,” meaning that the treatment had to be paid for out of regional rather then federal budgets. While richer regions could afford proper care, poorer areas were forced to cut facilities.

Yevgeny Ustupkin had to travel across Russia from Vladivostok to Moscow in order to receive the dialysis treatment he so urgently needed.

“It’s next to impossible to have dialysis treatment in Vladivostok; there is only one dialysis center in a hospital with 1,000 beds,” said the patient. “It puts doctors in such a position that they act like God and take decisions whether this patient will get dialysis treatment and live and the other will not.”

“There is no access to basic medications, doctors will not even tell you they exist because you cannot get it for free and few people have the means to pay for it,” he added.

Very often those who do survive receive so called “low-quality” dialysis treatment.

“A high-quality dialysis treatment has many components. First, a very pure water has to be used. 99% of our centers use water of terrible, unacceptable quality, absolutely unfit for a normal dialysis treatment,” revealed Lyudmila Kondrashova, Chairman of the Public Organization of Nephrological Patients. “And we need good specialists – unfortunately, we have only a handful of them who are competent. It is also about the quality of equipment.”

Lydmila receives many letters from patients who have shocking experiences to share.

“I’m 21 years old and I’m 156th in line for dialysis treatment. I’m not even sure I’ll live that long,” a patient from the city of Ryazan wrote her.

“The solution for dialysis was prepared in a square tank made from welded steel (they use similar tanks to water gardens in dachas),” wrote another patient from the city of Ulan-Ude. “This tank was placed in a checkroom, where there were hangers for overcoats. It was covered with boards. I saw myself that people dropped gloves or hats into it by accident.”

“It might sound like a horror film, but this is the reality in many of our regions,” Kondrashova said.

With hospitals under equipped and vastly under funded, dialysis treatment ends up becoming a game of chance. The Ministry of Health replied that the availability of dialysis procedures is within the jurisdiction of regional healthcare structures.

“Those people who have no connections or money to get treatment or go to Moscow, they stay and die. And it’s a long and painful death,” Ustupkin said.

Activists are calling for the government to put in place a nationwide program backed by the state which with proper financing could put an end to an existing system.

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Remember the Twitter Kidney Transplant?

admin — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:22:16 +0000

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DALLAS – One year ago a father and son made history by participating in the first transplant surgery chronicled step-by-step on Twitter. During the procedure, Chris Gilbreath gave his 3-year old son, John, a kidney. And Children’s Medical Center tweeted about the transplant live from the operating room. Heather Hays finds out whatever happened to the pair. [SOURCE: MyFox]

Checkout Why HomeDialysis is Gaining Ground

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:23:09 +0000

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Pat & Ralph Love to Cruise and Dialysis Won’t Stop Them

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:22:54 +0000

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Sometimes Easter Gives FREE Kidneys

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:54:01 +0000

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Easter came early for a Filipina in Illinois. Ipinagdiriwang ngayon ni Myra de la Vega ang pangalawa niyang buhay. De la Vega owes her new lease on life to Chicago social worker Dan Coyne, who gifted the Filipina with one of his kidneys.

Dialysis in Port aux Basques. Aired 4/20/2009

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:10:11 +0000

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Doug Greer talks about the kidney dialysis situation in Port aux Basques. Aired 4/20/2009.

Avera Medical Minute: Living on Dialysis

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:45:40 +0000

Every month, 2,000 new names are added to the national waiting list for an organ transplant and about 18 people die everyday waiting. The good thing about our kidneys most everyone is born with 2, but only need 1 working kidney to live a normal life. We met two women in the Aberdeen area. One is surviving on dialysis, waiting for a kidney, the other just got one.

Dialysis is a necessity for Joy Stiklestad. The Claremont woman comes to the Kidney Dialysis Unit at Avera St. Luke’s Hospital in Aberdeen for 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. It’s how she survives. Joy is diabetic and lost function of her kidneys nearly 2 years go.

Joy says, “Dialysis has helped me 100% and I feel better than I have in the last 10 years. It really is a wonderful thing.”

Kidneys clean our blood and filter out the toxins we ingest every day. Dialysis does the work of the kidneys when they stop working.

Avera St. Luke’s Registered Nurse Melanie Thome says, “Impurities build up in our system, for instance fluids build up in some patients and they end up carrying 10-20 pounds of extra fluid or more. It’s hard on your heart and lungs and it might be hard to breath.”

Connie Bonen was on dialysis for 4 1/2 years.

Connie says, “I felt like I was getting older. I was tired, going up the stairs I would be short winded.”

Connie is one of approximately 82,000 people in this country waiting for a kidney. A month before we met her she finally got the call and a kidney. It came from a 50 year old man who had died. The transplant was done in Sioux Falls at the Avera Transplant Institute.

Connie says, “It’s sad someone had to die, but it’s good for my family.”

Connie wanted to get the point across that it’s important if you are an organ donor to not only mark it on your driver’s license, but to tell your family your wishes.

As for Joy, she will continue with dialysis for as long as she can waiting, hoping for a kidney.

Joy says, “I got to thinking about my kids and my four grandkids and they are worth living for and to watch them grow up. That was my hope and I’m going to stick to it.”

She knows dialysis holds the key to life until she gets the real gift of life.

For more information on becoming an organ donor contact the Avera Transplant Institute.

Source: KSFY

Mom Gives Kidney to Daughter

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:00:53 +0000

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Home Dialysis Units Increase Freedom for Kidney Patients

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:54:10 +0000

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Rochester, N.Y. – Four hundred people in Rochester alone need donated kidneys, and until they can get transplants, most rely on dialysis to filter their blood of toxins. This normally means long visits in the hospital on dialysis machines.

There are already some forms of home dialysis that involve the use of catheters and cyclers to cleanse the blood of toxins, but a new portable unit will allow patients to treat themselves at home.

Sometimes Kidney Disease Can Shatter your American Dream

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:43:53 +0000

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